Posted by dorayme on 06/27/07 08:10

For almost all of the sites I maintain, I am decking them out
with PHP includes, some are operating fine outside on external
servers. There is no management problem for this majority because
of the portability of the construction I am using:

($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/site/includes/section.inc'); ?>

Works beaut on both external and my local apache Mac server.

But, now that I have the solution to a global construction for a
Windows server for a couple of my sites (courtesy of help here in
a recent thread), I am going to have a slight management problem.
Because the construction used for these servers is double dutch
to my Mac server.

<? include "e:\inetpub\abc12345\includes\section.inc"; ?>

my solution so far is to put both constructions of the includes
on the files with one of them commented out for use here on my
server (for testing) and the other commented out for upload to
the actual server delivering the company site to the internet.
This is obviously easy to do for just a few files. And for the
business of uploading the newly "decked out with includes" whole
site, I guess I can just use S&R (on the whole site) to switch it
back and forth.

Anyone got any better idea of how to do this? It's surely not
that bad what I propose but I have this instinct that there are
likely smarter way of proceeding.

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dorayme

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